TX · City overview

Austin housing market intelligence

Fixture-backed housing signal profile for Austin, TX — rent, prices, supply, jobs, and climate.

Daytime view of the downtown Austin, Texas skyline along Lady Bird Lake.

AustinTX

Image: Wikimedia Commons · Sean Loyless · CC BY 2.0

Local visual context

Daytime view of the Texas State Capitol building in Austin, Texas. — Image: Wikimedia Commons · Tania Dey · CC BY-SA 3.0

Raw source values

Direct values from the underlying public datasets, before any Housing BuildDesignHub scoring.

Total population
961,855 people
Updated 2018-2022
Median household income
$80,954
Updated 2018-2022
Median gross rent
$1,567
Updated 2018-2022
Median home value (owner-occupied)
$493,400
Updated 2018-2022
Total housing units
419,663 units
Updated 2018-2022
House Price Index (all-transactions-nsa, 1991-Q1 = 100)
488.2
Updated 2024-Q4
Residential permits (trailing 12 months)
27,960 units
Updated 2024-12

Sources

American Community Survey
U.S. Census Bureau
fixturestale
ACS 5-Year Estimates
Confidence
high
Cadence
annually
Release
2023-12-07
Retrieved
2026-05-19
Open source ↗
House Price Index
Federal Housing Finance Agency
fixturestale
FHFA HPI — All-Transactions (NSA), MSA
Confidence
high
Cadence
quarterly
Release
2025-02-25
Retrieved
2026-05-19
Open source ↗
Building Permits Survey
U.S. Census Bureau
fixturestale
Census BPS — Monthly metro permits
Confidence
high
Cadence
monthly
Release
2025-02-19
Retrieved
2026-05-19
Open source ↗
FEMA National Risk Index
Federal Emergency Management Agency
fixturestale
National Risk Index — county-level
Confidence
high
Cadence
annually
Release
2023-03-23
Retrieved
2026-05-19
Open source ↗
BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
fixturestale
Local Area Unemployment Statistics — county
Confidence
high
Cadence
monthly
Release
2025-03-12
Retrieved
2026-05-19
Open source ↗
BEA Regional Economic Accounts
Bureau of Economic Analysis
fixturefresh
Regional Economic Accounts — MSA
Confidence
high
Cadence
annually
Release
2024-11-14
Retrieved
2026-05-19
Open source ↗

Computed signals

Updated 2026-05-19

58/100

Affordability73 / 100
Supply100 / 100
Supply score is at the v5.0 methodology ceiling (MSA permits / city housing units). See methodology limitations →
Price momentum60 / 100
Job market70 / 100
Economic strength69 / 100
Climate risk80 / 100

Computed from raw source values — see methodology

Data freshness

Static source fixture

fixtureStale

Retrieved: 2026-05-19
Latest source release: 2025-03-12

Static source fixtures bundled with the repo — not live. Replace with scheduled-ETL artifacts to flip provenance to live.

Data integrity notice

Housing BuildDesignHub currently uses source-attributed static fixtures to validate the data model and UI. Metrics are not live and should not be treated as investment, legal, financial, or property-level advice.

Data export

Static fixture data · not live data

JSON profile or one-row-per-metric CSV. See /api-docs.

Deeper reports

See methodology for how each signal is computed, or data status for current ETL coverage.